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154 The Line Adrian Won’t Cross

Author: Karima Sa'ad Usman
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-09 23:34:06

Adrian

I left the infirmary in silence, the sound of Natalie’s quiet sobs still echoing in my ears.

There was nothing more I could do for Nicole, for now. The only person who might offer a path forward was the one I’d always turned to when answers ran dry.

My father.

It was afternoon, which meant the odds weren’t in my favour. Unlike me, he could not walk in the sun.

He was Strigoi to the marrow, ancient, powerful, and forever bound to darkness.

There were days I wished I could share my gift with him. Let him taste food again. Feel sunlight without pain. But that was a fantasy, and we’d long made peace with what I was… and what he wasn’t.

Still, for me to exist, he had to exist. His blood. His sacrifice. His shadow. I owed him everything.

I stepped into my parents’ chambers, the door whispering closed behind me. No windows, of course. His spaces were always sealed in shadow. The air was still, and there he was on his bed, unmoving, at peace in that deathlike sleep that day brings to h
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Marlenny Fernandez
It has come to my mind that Alison is just there to finish the job like marliey said but I want to believe she’s clueless and innocent
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Marlenny Fernandez
I don’t think Dimitri nor lance has anything to do with it but Martina and Arya they are in it through through!! I don’t really know what to think for Alison and that’s a first
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Petagay Thompson
I wonder how that will play out.
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